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First, a huge thank you to VP Harris and Gov. Walz and all the team who worked so hard, only to be devastated by the results across the whole country. You gave your hearts to this, and it wasn't enough for half of the voters — or for those who stayed home. The rest of us will carry on and do our best, individually and as a community. But make no mistake — it is going to be much harder.
Perhaps I'm being unduly alarmist. But this country has just elected a fascist leadership, with a Senate and very likely House to implement all their worst ideas, and a Supreme Court that has already shown it will approve anything they put forth. Their plans include hollowing out the civil service and replacing all the institutional guardrails at the federal level. This time, he will enter office with a cadre of loyalists prepared to implement his every wish, and more – they have their own agenda. Should he falter, he brings a vice president who is young, energetic, and apparently even more committed to their autocratic and white Christian nationalist vision.
Half the voters support all of this, and half or so of the states already have autocratic governments that are already implementing their policies, to the extent they have not been blocked at the national level – protection that will disappear January 20. Voter suppression will target the rest of the voters – us – and the states that have held out against their agenda.
This time, we have no "America" across the ocean to serve as a beacon of democracy and a refuge from the worst. This time, the autocrats will have control over a massive system to monitor dissent – no electronic communications will be safe, and the post office already tracks every piece of mail. In a larger country, organizing resistance or civil dissent is going to be a lot harder.
California, Colorado, New York, and a few other states will have some ability to protect their people, but you can expect that to be targeted as well. Sure, some of us as elderly white people are not going to be the ones they come after first. But we will see a lot of people hurt, and very soon.
Please tell me I'm not catastrophizing. Please tell me I will wake up tomorrow and this nightmare will be over instead of just starting.
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Kamala Harris was not a flawed candidate. America is a flawed country.
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) November 6, 2024
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- HailVictory1776 : Lmfao at the colored music playing
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!khive she respects the democratic process and will concede with grace unlike the fascist Trump who led an insurrection.
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BREAKING: Kamala Harris has reportedly called Trump to concede the election.
— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) November 6, 2024
Kamala will win
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As honourary participant in American politics (Australian with Twitter account) I have decided to cast my vote for Kamala by sealing ballot in glass jar and hurling it into the grand Pacific Ocean to drift towards the American West Coast.
— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) November 5, 2024
Good luck and God bless you Madam Vice… pic.twitter.com/2W6NgTu3Ss
- whyareyou : theater makeup and a few 0 newton kicks in the air is not violence LOL
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In the video its shows a girl who is attacked violently by two black guys (technically who are anti-Trump) while one was recording, this post being uploaded to the guy's Instagram stories has gone viral on the networks mainly on the X platform
With the Democrats, America is divided, and many problems are being faced. Voting for Trump is suggested
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Polling aggregator FiveThirtyEight has suddenly named Vice President Kamala Harris its favorite to win the White House, on Election Day, for the first time since October 17.
The race has long been neck and neck with any polling leads enjoyed by either candidate held with razor-thin margins.
FiveThirtyEight has had former President Donald Trump as its favorite to win for around two weeks, right up until Monday, when it found that, of 100 simulations, Trump won 53 times and Harris won 47 times.
But, in an update on Election Day, Harris came out as the favorite, winning 50 times out of 100 over Trump winning 49 times out of 100.
The last time FiveThirtyEight had the vice president as the favorite to win based on this model, which uses polling, economic and demographic data, was on October 17, when Harris was found to win 52 times out of 100, over Trump winning 48 times out of 100.
There is a less than one in 100 chance of there being no Electoral College winner, the polling aggregator said.
Similarly, the founder of FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver, who is no longer associated with the site, has technically called it for Harris. In his final election forecast with FiveThirtyEight's "direct descendant," the Silver Bulletin, he picked Harris as the favorite to win by a razor-thin edge.
Out of 80,000 simulations, Harris won in 50.015 percent of cases, while Trump won in 49.65 percent of cases, per Silver's model. Some 270 simulations resulted in a 269-269 Electoral College tie.
Silver cautioned in his Election Day newsletter: "When I say the odds in this year's presidential race are about as close as you can possibly get to 50/50, I'm not exaggerating.
"It's not because my default is to hedge or just throw some extra uncertainty parameters in the model for no reason. This is my fifth presidential election—and my ninth general election overall, counting midterms—and there has never been anything like this."
Newsweek has contacted teams for Harris and Trump, via email outside of normal working hours, for comment.
The day before the election saw Harris campaigning in Pennsylvania—its 19 electoral votes make it the largest prize among the battleground states that are set to determine the winner of the Electoral College. Trump held rallies in North Carolina and Pennsylvania before ending his campaign with a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Monday night.
Newsweek has rounded up what the latest polls and forecasts say about both candidates' chances of winning the White House here.
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My 135-year-old great-grandpa just voted for Kamala. He barely speaks English, yet he sees Trump for who he is. He came from Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the 90s, became a citizen in 2008, and is now part of this democracy. No, he's not “poisoning” America—he's strengthening it. pic.twitter.com/lsIqg8xq0z
— 🌴 Josh Lekach 🌴 (@JoshLekach) November 5, 2024
- Lv95_Slime : Which one of you wants to have gay s*x with me?
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When you get to your polling location, you will be greeted by two poll workers. One always tells the truth and the other always lies but you don't know which is which.
— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) November 5, 2024
You can ask them one question and one question only.
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 5, 2024
Oh no no Trumpsters, even your biggest cheerleader is part of the Khive now
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Evan, these maps are about to be your reality. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell will beat Rick Scott, and it will be close in Florida between VP Harris and Trump, but VP Harris will ultimately win. https://t.co/Wz95b6HLqP pic.twitter.com/xpUQDMzULe
— Christopher Bouzy (spoutible.com/cbouzy) (@cbouzy) November 5, 2024
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BREAKING: ChatGPT is biased. It answered in favor of Kamala Harris but denied the request to answer in favor of Donald Trump.
— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) November 5, 2024
Microsoft is one of the largest corporate donors to the Democratic Party. pic.twitter.com/iBmqfpA3Ww
!nonchuds !khive so the AI decided to be a decent artificial intelligence big deal